Élisée MAURER Game developer, software architect, team builder Strasbourg, France — ​[email protected]​ — ​linkedin.com/in/eliseem Objectives I ship high-quality creative products, be it games or applications. I value life-long learning and teamwork through mentoring and being mentored. My work has a positive impact in the world and brings people joy and connectedness. Education Fascinated by the magic of computers, I started making games at the age of 8. I ​taught myself game programming​ and software development over the course of many years building prototypes and shipping software. Throughout middle and high school, I learned various languages (BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, HTML/CSS/JS, PHP, Assembly, Python, Lua, Java, C#...), ​experimenting with technologies (low-level graphics programming, networking, physics engines, UI toolkits, multimedia libraries, scripting...) around games and apps on both Windows and Linux. I built and ran a programming forum for French speakers called ProgBoards (~2002) and created an online gold rush sim game named TreaSeek (~2004) with a few hundred regular players. On top of ​many game prototypes of all sorts​, I ​wrote a few apps​: peer-to-peer file sharing program, XMPP messaging client, email client, and so on. After getting my baccalauréat series S with highest honours, I entered the SUPINFO International University, and through my first-year summer internship, was hired away as a programmer in the games industry. 1 / 4 Experience & Skills 2009 - 2011: ​Creative Patterns I spent a few years at Creative Patterns ​honing my skills​ thanks to a great mentor, working on titles for the Nintendo DS (​Imagine Boutique Owner​, ​TURN: The Lost Artifact​), iPhone (​TURN: The Lost Artifact​, ​Pigeon Squadron​, ​Little Marmiton​), Xbox 360 and PC (​QuadSmash​). 2011 - 2014: ​CraftStudio In 2011, I started a company called ​Sparklin Labs​. Inspired by Minecraft and Unity, I pioneered an all-in-one real-time collaborative game-making app, running ​a successful crowdfunding campaign​ with 600+ backers. Over the course of 3 years I ​released hundreds of versions​ of ​CraftStudio​ ​for Windows, Mac and Linux to ​a few thousand happy customers​ of all ages, shipping launcher, client, server and runtime. As part of the project, I built a scriptable game engine, a full-blown ​UI framework​ and a ​collaborative text editing library​ based on operational transform. I also ​ran my own infrastructure​ for accounts & ​handled payments​ through PayPal and Stripe. On the side, I built half a dozen Web party games: a word game called ​BombParty​, the massively-multiplayer user-generated trivia game show ​Master of the Grid​ ​and a 2 / 4 pretend-money betting game ​Spelunky Death Roulette​, garnering millions of views on YouTube and Twitch. 2015 - 2016: ​Superpowers In 2015, I invited a couple talented people I met through CraftStudio to build ​Superpowers​, a new open-source, extensible collaborative game-making app that runs in the browser, teaching software development​ to one of my coworkers in the process. We held weekly livestreams for our community, sharing progress and integrating community feedback. Throughout the years, I took part in ​over 30 game jams​, shipping ​multiple top 5 entries for Ludum Dare​ and the Global Game Jam, with teams of up to a dozen people collaborating efficiently ​thanks to my leadership skills​ and live collaborative tools with fast iteration times. 2016 - 2020: ​Hytale In 2016, I joined Hypixel Inc. (now ​Hypixel Studios​) to lead the development of ​the Model Maker​ for ​Hytale​ after they had been using CraftStudio’s modeling tool for a year. I then took over the development of the client core, rewriting the prototype into a 3 / 4 production-quality codebase​ and ​helping set up good practices ​around code review and standards as the team grew. The game is highly anticipated with 50+ million trailer views. On the side I’ve enjoyed giving days-long ​workshops​ on game making as well as shorter ​classes covering aspects of computer sciences. Various people have mentioned my streams, tools and workshops as having inspired them and helped them get started with a programming career, which brings me a lot of joy. I’m always tinkering away at some side-projects whether it’s ​a bot that lets you make games by tweeting emojis at it​, a bot that plays Spelunky on its own, ​a marching-square terrain physics game​ or ​machine learning experiments​. Hobbies Lately I’ve picked up ​improv theater​ and a bit of ​songwriting​ with my ukulele. I enjoy ​taking pictures​. I record ​a ​podcast​ where I talk with friends​ about what gives meaning to our lives. I sometimes help run events as a volunteer for Alsace Digitale. I love telling ​stories​ and writing ​poems​ and since 2018 I share my journey of self-understanding and self-improvement in ​a yearly open letter​. I enjoy ​making ​stuff like ​this cardboard pinball machine​, ​this Arduino RC car​ and ​this oversized soapbox car​. I also have a ​keen interest​ in ​artificial intelligence​. I like to ​fly​, ​travel​ and meet new people. I’ve recently taken part in month-long co-living trips in Japan, ​Sweden​ and Vietnam. 4 / 4 .